Perl/Regex question (hopefully simple)

Phillip Mills pmills-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 29 16:11:20 UTC 2004


On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Madison Kelly wrote:

> So how do I go about substituting values around variable information 
> that I want to save?

This should get you closer:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $help_body = '[url=groups.google.ca]Google Groups[/url]';
$help_body =~ s/\[url=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/<a href="$1" 
target="_new">$2<\/a>/gi;
print $help_body;


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